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The momentous day in question was the 27th of January 2018. Ten people banded together on a Saturday and generated enough code to warrant a follow-up refactoring session.

There was pizza. There was beer. There were some laptops. And there were three teams, working on three separate projects:

GameBook CreatorDescription: A web app that allows you to create a game book and share it with others.Tech stack: AngularJS, Bootstrap 4, PHP, MySQL

ProtestODescription: A web app that allows its users to protest against a specific service or institution by placing their avatar right in front of their building on Google Maps.Tech stack: jQuery, .NET web services, MySQL, Google Maps API, Bootstrap 4

WASYDescription: A mobile educational app for children that allows them to practice their observational and speaking skills.Tech stack: Kotlin, .NET web services

We think it went great! Of course, mistakes were made when it comes to organisation. For example, we had somehow forgotten …

One of our founding members (a.k.a., Captain Lyubomir Bozhinov) has written the following article. We are proud to share it with you. You may find the original article here.
A lot has been written on the virtues of video games - and even more still on the terrible influence they allegedly are. Of course, I support the former point of view, as is clearly evident by the title of this article, my current occupation, and my Steam library.
This will be decidedly unscientific. There will be no substantiation of my claims. No Harvard referencing. So, you know, fair warning. But lack of academic rigour aside, I still think the ideas laid out here should not be dismissed outright.
As I said, I would like to support the numerous individuals who have posited that moderate perusal of video games is actually good for you. I will not, however, focus on the correlation between first-person shooters and improved hand-eye coordination. Nothing so tangible as that. Rather, I'd like to propose the i…